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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by w1ntermute on Thursday August 16, 2012 @11:46PM (#4394974)
If the percentage of 3rd party client users are small, then why would they even bother enacting this change in the first place?

> Twitter aren't stupid

Oh come on, that's not an argument. There have been countless examples throughout history of companies (in tech and otherwise) that have done stupid things that have directly contributed to their demise. There's no reason to assume that Twitter won't end up like them.

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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by citricsquid on Friday August 17, 2012 @12:33AM (#4395084)
Small as a percentage is still millions and millions of people and tens of millions of requests.
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